New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... show that it is the spoken , and not the written , language that is the language , - that is the more important of the two , and that indeed gives life and vigour to the other . 2. The Spoken and the Written Language . - Every civilised ...
... show that it is the spoken , and not the written , language that is the language , - that is the more important of the two , and that indeed gives life and vigour to the other . 2. The Spoken and the Written Language . - Every civilised ...
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... show its relation to other words in the sentence . Our language has lost most of these forms ; but we still use the word case to indicate the function , even when the form has been lost . ( i ) The word case is from the Latin casus ...
... show its relation to other words in the sentence . Our language has lost most of these forms ; but we still use the word case to indicate the function , even when the form has been lost . ( i ) The word case is from the Latin casus ...
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... shows that the quality it expresses has been raised one step or degree higher . Thus we say sharp , sharper ; cold , colder ; brave , braver . The comparative degree brings together only two ideas . Thus we may speak of " the taller of ...
... shows that the quality it expresses has been raised one step or degree higher . Thus we say sharp , sharper ; cold , colder ; brave , braver . The comparative degree brings together only two ideas . Thus we may speak of " the taller of ...
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... show whether the subject of the statement denotes the doer of the action , or the object of the action , expressed by the verb . 8. There are two Voices : the Active Voice , and the Passive Voice . ( i ) When a verb is used in the ...
... show whether the subject of the statement denotes the doer of the action , or the object of the action , expressed by the verb . 8. There are two Voices : the Active Voice , and the Passive Voice . ( i ) When a verb is used in the ...
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... has been placed in the Regular Weak conjugation . 1 The past tenses of dig and stick were formerly weak ; so were the pas sive participles of hide , rot , show , strew , saw . ( iii ) The ed or d is a shortened THE VERB . 45.
... has been placed in the Regular Weak conjugation . 1 The past tenses of dig and stick were formerly weak ; so were the pas sive participles of hide , rot , show , strew , saw . ( iii ) The ed or d is a shortened THE VERB . 45.
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Page 242 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 163 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 208 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 236 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 238 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 219 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Page 172 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 244 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!